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The files of type mail_or_rmail used in the index were:
   /home/ftp/mail-archives/netcdfgroup

This is the mailing list archive for the netcdfgroup@unidata.ucar.edu
mailing list, containing all the postings since the mailing list was created
on 18 June 1990.  This WAIS index is updated nightly so it might not contain
postings within the last 24 hours.

The Unidata network Common Data Form (netCDF) is an interface for scientific
data access and a freely-distributed software library that provides an
implementation of the interface.  The netCDF library also defines a
machine-independent format for representing scientific data.  Together, the
interface, library, and format support the creation, access, and sharing of
scientific data.  The current netCDF software provides common C and FORTRAN
interfaces for applications and data.  It has been tested on various common
platforms, including several versions of UNIX, VMS, MSDOS, and OS/2.

NetCDF files are self-describing, network-transparent, directly accessible,
and extendible.  `Self-describing' means that a netCDF file includes
information about the data it contains.  `Network-transparent' means that a
netCDF file is represented in a form that can be accessed by computers with
different ways of storing integers, characters, and floating-point numbers.
`Direct-access' means that a small subset of a large dataset may be accessed
efficiently, without first reading through all the preceding data.
`Extendible' means that data can be appended to a netCDF dataset without
copying it or redefining its structure.

NetCDF is useful for supporting access to diverse kinds of scientific data
in heterogeneous networking environments and for writing application
software that does not depend on application-specific formats.  A variety of
analysis and display packages have been developed to analyze and display
data in netCDF form.

You can obtain a copy of the latest version of netCDF software using
anonymous FTP from

	host: unidata.ucar.edu
        file: pub/netcdf/netcdf.tar.Z
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